[ale] Low memory system

[Chris Fowler]

I see a problem where when I get up to 20mb in swap that my network card no
longer works due to running out of memory.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Marcus [mailto:CharlesM at Media-Brokers.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 6:44 PM
To: Ale (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [ale] Low memory system


Well, this contradicts something I read, I believe written by Linus, or some
other big-time guru, that said this was not true...

But, I certainly cannot say so myself - I am just going by what I read by
those whose opinions I respect.

Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vernard Martin [mailto:vernard at cc.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 5:11 PM
> To: Charles Marcus
> Cc: "Ale (E-mail)"
> Subject: Re: [ale] Low memory system
>
>
> > My understanding is, the RAM X 2 standard only applies up
> to about 256MB of
> > swap - after that, it is wasted disk space.  So, if your
> compiter has more
> > than 128MB of RAM, just use 256MB of swap.
>
> Up until the 2.4.9 series of kernels, you were required to
> have Swap = 2X ram
> for performance reasons. Using less than that would make you
> vulnerable to a
> lockup bug that didn't require you to stress the machine out
> much at all. if
> you using 2.4.10 or higher than you can juse pretty much
> whatever you want for
> swap with the caveat that swap is what is going to determine
> your virtual
> memory. :)
>
>
> V
> ---
> Vernard Martin (vernard at cc.gatech.edu)
> http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~vernard/
>         "Anything worth fighting over is worth fighting dirty over"



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